![]() “So we just took a brief moment, and said, ‘You didn’t do anything wrong. “Those people, they didn’t even know they were gonna be in a movie that day,” Hanks said. She agreed - then proceeded to let her nerves blow the first take. Just ignore the fact that he’s Tom Hanks.” (Treat it) exactly like a training exercise. I just want to know what you would do if you were on that ship. He told her: “This is a scene where Phillips has just been rescued. Greengrass asked her if she would be willing to be on camera. So the crew hurriedly moved equipment down to the tiny sick bay, where Navy Hospital Corpsman Danielle Albert was on duty. Their time on the boat was running out, but Greengrass was intrigued. ![]() He told Greengrass that the first place Phillips was taken after being recovered was the infirmary. Greengrass found himself talking to Frank Castellano, the commander of the Navy destroyer during the actual hijacking, during a break. It can show you a bit of the world with some authenticity.”Īnd so late in the afternoon on a day toward the end of the shooting schedule, aboard the USS Truxtun, Hanks and Greengrass were searching for that moment of emotional release. “But I really do believe that there are truths about what it feels like - what the experience would feel like.” Shooting in real places with real people, he said, “can put you in the experience. “Movies are not journalism, and they’re not history,” Greengrass said. Greengrass, director of the kinetic second and third “Bourne” movies, also is known for his skill with docudramas such as 9/11 thriller “United 93,” which he famously shot on a real Boeing 757 and had some participants in the real-life events - including air traffic controllers and the FAA’s operations manager - play themselves. “The smell and the tactile effect of actually being at sea and having to deal with all of the nature of that - and also the sound and the smell and the hardware of the ship itself - we didn’t have to pretend.” ![]() Regis Atlanta, looking younger than his 57 years with a short haircut and Ray-Ban eyeglasses. “It’d be silly to do it any other way,” said Hanks, seated at a table at The St. Filming took place off the coast of Malta on a Maersk vessel identical to the one hijacked on a fiberglass lifeboat identical to the one on which the pirates held Phillips hostage and on a mission-ready guided missile destroyer near Norfolk, Va. So here it is:ĭirector Paul Greengrass shot 75 percent of “Captain Phillips” over 60 days on the open water. As a female corpsman performs her checks of his physical condition, he completely surrenders to emotion, awash in a type of powerful catharsis rarely seen at the end of Hollywood thrillers.īefore examining his bravura scene, however, it’s helpful to have some context. So with that out of the way, the star can talk freely about “Captain Phillips”’ final scene, in which Richard Phillips (Hanks) - having been rescued after a relentlessly tense standoff with the pirates - is brought to the sick bay of a Navy destroyer, bloodied and exhausted. cargo ship, and in the end, the hero lives to see another day (and to write a book, “A Captain’s Duty,” which served as the basis for the film). The new movie’s ripped-from-the-headlines plot is based on the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of a U.S. ATLANTA - Tom Hanks isn’t too worried about spoilers when it comes to “Captain Phillips.” ![]()
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